slave
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.
a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: She was a slave to her own ambition.
a drudge: a housekeeping slave.
a slave ant.
Photography. a subsidiary flash lamp actuated through its photoelectric cell when the principal flash lamp is discharged.
Machinery, Computers. a device or process under control of or repeating the actions of a similar device or process.: Compare master (def. 21).
to work like a slave; drudge.
to engage in the slave trade; procure, transport, or sell slaves.
Machinery, Computers. to connect (a device) to a master as its slave.
Archaic. to enslave.
Origin of slave
1Other words for slave
Other words from slave
- slaveless, adjective
- slavelike, adjective
- pro·slave, adjective
- sem·i·slave, noun
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How to use slave in a sentence
In the large cities the urbanized working class were slaves to a plutocracy.
“I like decorating my slaves,” she said, referencing the rope, her thin, crimson-coated lips peeling off her front teeth.
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Think of this, ye who talk, not always without reason, of "factory slaves" and the meagre rewards of labor in America.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThere is also one curate who has charge of the Indian natives of this city and the slaves and freedmen living within the city.
Although the number of slaves in the Brazils is very great, there is nowhere such a thing as a slave-market.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferWhereupon Mr. Pitt, springing up, desired to know when they were made slaves.
The Eve of the Revolution | Carl BeckerI do not at all overstate the fact, when I say, that 50,000 slaves are annually landed in Cuba.
British Dictionary definitions for slave
/ (sleɪv) /
a person legally owned by another and having no freedom of action or right to property
a person who is forced to work for another against his will
a person under the domination of another person or some habit or influence: a slave to television
a person who works in harsh conditions for low pay
a device that is controlled by or that duplicates the action of another similar device (the master device)
(as modifier): slave cylinder
(intr often foll by away) to work like a slave
(tr) an archaic word for enslave
Origin of slave
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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